Azure Support and DevOps Specialist (Operations Production Management)
Summary
Maintains and improves the reliability of Java-based systems on Azure, automating operations and observability to minimize downtime and resolve incidents.
Location:
Montreal (day 1 onboarding onsite/in-office presence required 3x/week)
Duration:
12 month
Schedule:
Available for occasional planned weekend rotational support. Work hours may vary between 9am-6pm or 12pm-9pm, communicated in advance.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure stability and resilience of critical Settlements flow hosted on premises and cloud platforms.
- Support systems and end users while performing project tasks to improve the production environment.
- Apply technical and domain expertise to solve complex technical and business challenges.
- Act as a buffer between support and development teams to resolve problems within the production management team.
- Manage critical incidents with concise communication, ensuring all key management and business stakeholders are informed.
- Work with software developers and infrastructure engineering teams to develop automated reliability solutions.
- Implement observability and telemetry systems to support applications and APIs.
- Use automation to enhance system management, uptime, and risk mitigation.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the IT industry, including at least 2 years in Level 3 Production Management in a Java-based application environment.
- Experience supporting applications deployed on Azure Cloud.
- Expert knowledge of observability and reliability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment.
- Expertise in analyzing, debugging, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed applications across software, infrastructure, and database layers.
- Experience working in Python and Java code bases.
- Strong cross-team communication and collaboration skills.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Terraform or GitHub.
- Familiarity with Azure Kubernetes, Azure Spring Apps, Azure Web Apps, AzureSQL, Kafka, and Azure ServiceBus.
- Experience instrumenting application services endpoints for logging, metrics, and events using Azure Monitor, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Knowledge of observability design principles.